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Auction: 4003 - Stamps & Covers of the World featuring Italy and Italian States
Lot: 85

Naples 1858 Arms Issue 2g. lake (3, large margins all round) and 5g. carmine-rose (good to large margins) tied on 1860 (2 Apr.) commercial entire letter sent from Marseilles to the forwarding agent, G.B. Collareta in Naples (with his manuscript endorsement on flap), endorsed "postali franca" and bears by straight-line "annullato" handstamps and paying the 11g. rate on letters posted out of the Kingdom of Naples via Messina to Milazzo. With a good strike of Messina c.d.s on face and Naples despatch on reverse. Particularly fresh and fine, without the usual filing folds. B.P.A. Certificate (1965). Sass. 5, 8. Photo Estimate £ 400-500

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